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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country? Welcome back inside the uc Hell

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Speaker 1: Training Center for today's edition of Broncos Now. Team reporter

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Speaker 1: Sidney Jones here and coming up on today's episode, we'll

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Speaker 1: hear from head coach Nathaniel Hackett and all three coordinators

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Speaker 1: as a team continues to prepare for their trip to Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Plus Seahawks Senior digital media reporter John Boyle joins the

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Speaker 1: show to give some insight on this matchup from a

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Speaker 1: Seahawks perspective. All that and more coming up. It was

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Speaker 1: another day of practice here at the Broncos headquarters as

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Speaker 1: the players and the coaching staff continue to prepare for

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Speaker 1: their season opener versus Seahawks in just three days. Head

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Speaker 1: coach Nathaniel Hackett met with the media today and talked

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Speaker 1: about the challenge that comes with game planning for week one.

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Speaker 1: That's always the exciting thing. You know, you go out there,

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Speaker 1: week one um with a new guy in there, and

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna kind of at his little style on everything,

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Speaker 1: That's just kind of part of it. So we have

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Speaker 1: and offensive coordinator Justin now and have had an open

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Speaker 1: line of communication as they've been preparing this week. Coach

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Speaker 1: Allen said there's a lot of communication throughout the entire

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Speaker 1: coaching staff. There's a lot of collaboration throughout the process

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Speaker 1: of game planning. We're always talking through practice and just

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Speaker 1: So those situations that pop up, there's a lot of communication,

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Speaker 1: open their wings a little bit. As its coaching staff

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Speaker 1: reflective and uh, you know that. The other day, Coach

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Speaker 1: If we don't have a eleven on the field this week,

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Speaker 1: another play. So the guys that are usually the best,

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Speaker 1: a Seahawks perspective. John, appreciate you taking the time to

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Speaker 1: the big names, but there's there's a lot of young talent.

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Speaker 1: into this Monday night matchup is Russell Wilson's return to Seattle. John,

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Speaker 1: So what are your expectations for him, you know, emotionally

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Speaker 1: let's really dive into this matchup, starting with Gino Smith.

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Speaker 1: What have you seen from his performances, you know, throughout

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Speaker 1: They really like the thing. We're gonna have to see those,

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Speaker 1: Of course, thanks for having me. An now it's time

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Speaker 1: to take a look at today's injury report. Inside linebacker

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Speaker 1: Josie Jewel did not participate today. Outside linebacker Randy Gregory,

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Speaker 1: wide receiver kJ Hamler in offensive alignement Billy Turner all

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Speaker 1: Coachack Hat said Josie Jewel had some things act up

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Speaker 1: to day defensive coordinator each year. Vero said, Randy Gregory

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